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In order to drive real value to your organization, you need a partner who speaks your language and guides you in optimizing your specific business. We specialize in industry verticals and business process expertise. We are true transportation and logistics champions. Learn more about some of our key areas of business expertise.

As a Logistics Service Provider, your value chain starts with customer engagement, the management of leads, opportunities and a definition of a clear catalog of services. Ensure standardized sales processes and offerings while offering customers’ individual agreements. Embed service agreements in your operation to ensure the ability to execute. This domain is often referred to as the lead-to-contract process.

Identify transportation orders from customers and your own business units. Generate customer orders based on standardized service products and ensure the execution with standard operating procedures. Comply with trade and company regulations during order management.

Achieve efficient route planning and space utilization across different modes of transport. Manage full and less than truck loads, consolidate into LCL containers or plan air consolidations. Handle full container loads and IATA direct shipments. Handle truck and trailer planning or manage your own extensive fleet of vehicles and assets. Visualize your shipments with sophisticated planning cockpits, Gantt charts and live transportation maps.

Keep track of large amounts of assets such as containers, ULDs and trailers, be these leased or owned equipment. Optimize global equipment movements, repositioning and demand forecasts to optimize routes and reduce detention/demurrage charges.

Long lead times and quality issues in answering large customer RFQs as a logistics service provider:
By implementing a quotation and sales process you will be able to upload customer RFQs and answer them in a harmonized and standardized manner while ensuring margins and profitability.

High cost of transportation during inbound and outbound processes:
Decrease various cost drives by optimizing your route and load planning, enabling collaborative and predictive carrier tendering and improved asset movements.

Overpayments and reactive management of invoices from Logistics Service Providers and Carriers:
Dramatically reduce overspending with carriers in a streamlined process of estimating freight rates, verifying actual carrier invoices and handling dispute cases in a pro-active manner.

Penalties and shipment delays based on legal and trade compliance issues:
Reduction in compliance errors and customs penalties based on an integrated system with automated compliance checks.

Lack of visibility for shipments as well as reactive management of incidents and delays:
Improvement of service levels based on visibility portal, workflow and monitoring via a control tower concept.

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